Andre Bieler: “Port Au Persil”

Artist: Andre Bieler | Title of Work: “Port Au Persil” | Edition # 96/100 | Type of Print: Woodblock | Paper Size: 19.625″x26 | Image Size: 10″x12.5″ | Date: mid-1980’s | Condition: 10/10 | Signed and titled by the artist in pencil.This is a lovely woodblock print, by the Canadian artist Andre Bieler. André was born in Switzerland and came to Montreal in 1908. He studied art in Paris in the 1920’s for several years as well as at the Art Students’ League in New York. He organized the first conference of Canadian Artist in 1941 for which he later received the Order of Canada. He taught at the Banff School of fine Arts and was also resident artist and teacher at Queens’ University for many years. His landscapes and genre scenes of Quebec and Ontario were influenced by the French impressionists. The artwork of this important and influential artist is represented in the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and many other public and private galleries and collections around the world. André settled in 1927 to 1930 at L’ île d’Orléans where he experimented with various techniques of producing woodcuts eventually combining the woodblock for line and colour in pochoir. During this time he made seventeen woodcuts, the majority with pochoir. The editions of these prints were very small and are now considered quite rare and valuable. André Biéler died in 1989. Price: $1200 CDN Framed (Free Shipping)

Tomoe Yokoi: “Box and Bottle”

Artist: Tomoe Yokoi | Title of Work: “Box and Bottle” | Edition # 29/30 | Type of Print: Mezzotint| Paper Size: 19.75″x25.75″ | Image Size: 12″x13.5″ | Date: mid-1980’s | Condition: 8/10 | Signed and titled by the artist in pencil. Japanese, b.1942 Yokoi studied art in Tokyo and later in Paris at Hayter’s Atelier 17, the most prestigious school of intaglio printing. She settled in New York in 1971, having perfected the difficult and arduous technique of colour mezzotint printing. She combines European beaux-art subject matter with an oriental emphasis on asymmetry and design, producing subtly nuanced prints, many of which are in major international museums. Yokoi’s work is shown in prestigious permanent collections including the Musée d’ Art Moderne, Paris; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Free Library of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. Yokoi has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States including: Norwegian International Print Biennial, Oslo; Paris International Print Biennial; SAGA National Print Exhibition, New York; IKI International Art Fair, Dusseldorf; British International Print Biennial, Bradford; and Ljubljana International Print Biennial, Yugoslavia. Price: $1500 CDN Framed (Free Shipping)